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Cynthia Polansky
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While visiting recently in my mother's kitchen, my brother mentioned that he hadn't received my monthly newsletter in a while.��"Could it be the spam filter?" I asked him "Maybe you need to whitelist the email addy."��I caught a glimpse of my mother's bewildered face. "You have no idea what I just said, do you?" She definitely had the I don't know what you're talking about but I'll be supportiv...
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Far Above Rubies
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Remote Control
— published 2007 — 3 editions |
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Death and the Maven
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REMOTE CONTROL (Literature & Fiction)
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Jewish control freak Judith McBride is dead and never looked better...but giving up the ghost, so to speak, proves harder than she thought.
FAR ABOVE RUBIES (History)
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based on the inspiring true story of a Dutch woman who voluntarily accompanied her 6 stepdaughters to Auschwitz
Gene Weingarten, This One's For You (Humor)
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Those of you who read the Wasington Post Sunday magazine are familiar with columnist Gene Weingarten, whose perspective on everyday occurrences is laugh-out-loud funny. My favorite is from a few years ago, before phishing had gone mainstream.
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Makes the Newtown, CT shootings seem like child's play. A disturbingly gripping tale of a disturbed boy and his lacking parents. Nature versus nurture? Hard to decide. Perhaps a little of both. The writing is a bit pretentious, but I've yet to discer...more |
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A Match For Mary Bennet: Can A Serious Young Lady Ever Find Her Way To Love?
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Far Above Rubies
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makes great companion reading to "Diary of Anne Frank"
recommended for: adults and kids 12 and up.
read in April, 2007
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That role models can come packaged as unlikely people; That each of us has the capacity to become a hero, albeit unsung; That history should never be forgotten. |
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Rosemary wrote: "Cynthia, your career sounds fascinating, esp. your membership in the Dog Writers Association of America. Thanks for adding me. Happy writing!"Thank you, Rosemary. Who would have guessed that dog writers would be sufficiently ubiquitous to warrant their own association!
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